SNEAKO - February 06, 2023SEEK TRUTH THROUGH FUNNY.
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Summary
Comedian Dave Chappelle was one of the most self-aware people in human history. He was a standup comic, a comedian, a writer, a podcaster, a hip hop artist, a rock god, a humanitarian, a philanthropist, a humanist, an activist, a father, a son, a brother, a husband, a friend, a gay man, a Muslim, a Christian, a black man, and a Muslim woman. And yet, he didn t have it all figured out until he was in his mid-20s.
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This is single-handedly the coolest thing I've ever been handed
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And no, it's not the one million YouTube plaque
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I was really close to throwing it in the river when I got banned
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It's the $100 bill that I keep on top of it when you look closer
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You can see on the left it says much love and on the right it's signed by Dave Chappelle
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In the basement of a small comedy club in New York City
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He wanted to smoke so I threw a pack of cigarettes on stage and he gave me this bill and a long message about kindness
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I was kind enough to give him the whole pack instead of just one but I keep it here as a reminder of my motto
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It was the first time I performed stand-up comedy and it was the most nervous that I've ever been in my entire life to this day
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But this moment I had to poop three times in the club bathroom before I stepped on stage
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Because these four words define my entire life philosophy
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By far the most difficult question I'm asked is how do I find purpose in life?
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I grew up during the most self-aware period in human history
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Traditionally your environment dictates who you are before you even reach the age of self-discovery
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But my generation was the first one where the environment was social media
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Previous generations could find themselves tripping lsd at a music festival
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But we were the first ones where algorithms told us who we were before maturity even had a chance
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The reason I was pooping so much here and this bill was so cool was stand-up comedy was the first outlet
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Without stand-up comedy I would have never found what I wanted in life at such an early age
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These newly found algorithms allowed us to craft a version of ourselves rather than becoming one
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And although most of it is terrible comedy is still the pursuit of truth
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Oh, yes! It's funny because it's free and no one can have
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By ridiculing the aspects of life we have all accepted as normal you begin to realize just how programmed we are
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This is the era where social norms are not established out of necessity but out of convenience
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And not a convenience to the betterment of society but to prioritize people's feelings
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And additionally my era could be defined by the rise of heightened self-awareness
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From ages 3 to 12 I was in a constant state of freaking out
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Right here he's getting arrested for using too many swear words at a comedy show
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I had never seen someone speak so freely and truly not give a fuck
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He attacked the establishment, he went after the government, he roasted traditional religious gatherings
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The guy seemed to hate absolutely everything, he was an edgy atheist but he was honest and really angry
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He came off like he was smarter than everyone telling us what to do and he only had to use jokes to achieve it
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Before George Carlin I studied hard for all my exams and afterwards I cheated because school was a scam
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How would I let these cops in uniforms tell me what to do?
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Then George Carlin became a little preachy and I found Louis CK
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Louis was like the more degenerate, Jewish, Mexican, hilarious version
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Louis CK helped me realize the absurdities of it all
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People tweeting their moral stance about climate change on an iPhone made by a Chinese child in a sweatshop
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People who believe you should say the n-word instead of just saying nigger
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That's just white people getting away with saying nigger
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When I was 14 and the third wave of feminism arrived, I found Bill Burr
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He was answering the questions that every western man has
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Wait, why should we simply believe all women?
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Ladies, can you at least admit that every ass kicking doesn't just fall out of the fucking sky?
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When I turned 16, the world got even crazier when the nation of 79 genders attacked
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Dave Chappelle was the one who was always able to navigate through the outrage with the right commentary
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The dude became one of my heroes when I realized he ditched Hollywood of a hundred million dollar contract
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When the industry offered to buy him out, he said fuck your money, fuck your fame
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If Dave Chappelle could refuse to sell his soul for a hundred million dollars
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Then who was I to accept that 20 million dollar gambling deal?
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When I was 20, I found the funniest guy of all time, but he was already dead
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Patrice O'Neal said what every man felt, but had no idea how to articulate
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He died 10 years before I found him, but I still listen to every single bit of media
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But still, one of my favorite moments of his isn't even comedy
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It's when he went on national TV to defend a white man
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Who made a joke about a black woman being a nappy-headed hoe
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I know that cracker didn't say nappy-headed hoe
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Patrice O'Neal was fat and he called himself ugly
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But his existence was proof that the most authentic person is who captivates the room
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He was the funniest comedian of all time because it wasn't just jokes to him
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There was something more important going on than just making people laugh
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It was about removing all the layers of bullshit to be perfectly honest
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Comedy is how I learned to remove all those layers of bullshit
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Going to school with kids with money who dressed in salmon shorts and Sperry's
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With that fakeness that every Asian American has at one point
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Where they tried to blend in undercover with white people
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But while you're undercover realizing, hey kid, you're also black
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Stand-up comedy was the process of unlearning all that programming
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And seeing two gay men kiss and their beards interlocking
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Altering your honest feelings just to fit into society
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Being taught that saying the word fat is offensive
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And to say big boned or wide framed instead
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You're not saving them from their inevitable diabetes
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This was a very effective way to develop my world view
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But I wouldn't recommend it to people because you might get the Woody Allen problem
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No, not the problem of getting married to your adopted Asian daughter
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But his movies are some of the best of all time
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And the fact he's able to do that with films almost completely comprised of dialogue
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All his experiences are going to be written down one day
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For example, last month I sent a quarter million dollars in crypto to the wrong address
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But I wasn't dreading it for more than five seconds before I started thinking
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This world view is honest but you will never really live in the moment again
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The only real way to turn that off is with drugs or quitting
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Luckily for me seeking the truth so much led me to finding God again
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I had went full circle from the atheist edgy George Carlin days
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One day you're just laughing at jokes from George Carlin
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About how absurd it is that people ever go to war
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And slowly you realize that everything ridiculous in this world
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Stems from the fact that people are just disobeying what has been outlined to us by God